# Incidents: licensing and closure of outlets, head of government William Lyon Mackenzie King

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

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1 incident matches this view.

- 3 September 1939: [Canada: War Measures Act regulations authorize review of hundreds of newspapers and ban political organizations](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1939-canada-defence-of-canada-regulations-censorship). Canada invoked the War Measures Act at the outset of the Second World War and used it to bring in the Defence of Canada Regulations, which gave the government power to review and restrict hundreds of newspapers and periodicals and to ban d…

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